Nereid Riding Cetus - Ancient Greek Vase Painting (original) (raw)

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Nereid Riding Cetus | Apulian red figure vase painting

DETAILS

Museum Collection The J. Paul Getty Museum, Malibu
Catalogue No. Malibu 86.AE.611
Beazley Archive No. N/A
Ware Apulian Red Figure
Shape Pelike
Painter Near the Gravina Painter
Date ca 425 - 401 B.C.
Period Classical

DESCRIPTION

Detail of a Nereid riding side-saddle on the back of a Cetus (Sea-Monster) from a painting depicting the delivery of the armour of Achilles.

ARTICLES

Nereids

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